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Members of a Chinese Navy honor guard stand at attention during a welcoming ceremony for US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates at the Bayi Building in Beijing. Andy Wong/AP Photo

State Representative Greg Morris observes a moment of silence with his son Jonathan for the shooting that injured Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, at the beginning of the new session of the Georgia House of Representatives in Atlanta. A somber President Obama led a moment of silence on Monday for a nation stunned by an attempted assassination against an Arizona congresswoman that left her gravely wounded, several others injured, and six people dead. David Goldman/AP Photo

An Indian boy holds up his national flag before his team's AFC Asian Cup Group C soccer match against Australia at Al Saad Stadium, in Doha, Qatar. Tara Todras-Whitehill/AP Photo

Afghan boys jump down from old vehicles in Kabul, Afghanistan. Ahmad Massoud/AP Photo

The Zaryen team goalkeeper jumps for the ball during a friendly match against Haiti's national amputee team in Port-au-Prince. Haiti will this week mark the first anniversary of the earthquake that killed around 250,000 people and wrecked much of the capital Port-au-Prince. Kena Betancur/Reuters

People sit around a bonfire in New Delhi, India. Near-freezing temperatures and icy Himalayan winds killed 13 people overnight in northern India, bringing the death toll to nearly 100 from a cold snap that began three weeks ago. Gurinder Osan/AP Photo

Investors add bamboo poles to a fire as they block roads around the Dhaka Stock Exchange in Dhaka. Bangladesh police fired tear gas and a water cannon to break up violent protests by investors on Monday after stock trading was halted when prices went into free fall. Andrew Biraj/Reuters

A child looks at BMW biker Frans Verhoeven of the Netherlands as a helicopter flies over them during the eighth stage of the 2011 Argentina-Chile Dakar Rally between Antofagasta and Copiapo, Chile. Natacha Pisarenko/AP Photo

South Sudanese men wait to cast their vote at a polling station in Juba, Southern Sudan. Thousands of people began casting ballots Sunday during a week-long referendum to choose the destiny of this war-ravaged and desperately poor, but oil-rich region. The mainly Christian south is widely expected to secede from the mainly Muslim north, splitting Africa's largest country in two. Jerome Delay/AP Photo

A Haitian boy cries while sleeping at a cholera treatment center of Medecins Sans Frontieres in Port-au-Prince. Jorge Silva/Reuters

United Nations soldiers from Niger ride atop an armored personnel carrier as they conduct a patrol through the streets of Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Former Nigerian leader and mediator Olusegun Obasanjo left Ivory Coast early Monday as the country's incumbent president continued to defy the world and insist he had won the recent election. Rebecca Blackwell/AP Photo

Tourists take a boat ride amid heavy fog at Sukhana Lake on a cold day in the city of Chandigarh as cold weather continued to sweep North India. Ajay Verma/Reuters

South Korean Buddhist devotees and priests gather to bow 1,080 times during a ceremony at the Cheonggyecheon Stream plaza in central Seoul. About 150 Buddhists attended the ceremony to criticize and demand for a change in South Korean President Lee Myung-bak's regime, which they said focused on a specific group and is based on regionalism, religion, and academic bias. Truth Leem/Reuters

Japanese women in kimonos ride a roller-coaster during their Coming of Age Day event at an amusement park in Tokyo. The Coming of Age day is held annually on the second Monday of January to congratulate all those who have reached the age of 20 years old. According to a local report, about 1,240,000 men and women who were born in 1990, reached the coming of age this year and this figure is the smallest number since 1968 in the world's oldest major country. Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters

Cristina Povoa, a Portuguese broker, talks on the phone while working in Lisbonl. Europe's debt crisis looked increasingly likely to claim another victim, as Portugal's borrowing rates spiked to euro-era highs amid reports Germany and France are pushing it to accept outside help and prevent contagion to other countries. Francisco Seco/AP Photo

Cameron and Anna Grace pull their children, Jonathan and David, on their sleds behind an ATV in Huntsville, Ala. Dave Dieter/AP Photo

Mark Greenough, Capitol historian (bottom r.) gives a tour to House of Delegate pages as they look over the George Washington statue in the rotunda of the Capitol in Richmond, Va. The 2011 session of the Virginia General Assembly begins on Wednesday. Steve Helber/AP Photo

President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama return to the White House in Washington after observing a moment of silence for Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D) of Arizona and the other victims of an assassination attempt against her. The shooting at a town hall-style event outside a supermarket in Tucson, Ariz., left six dead, including a federal judge, and critically wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo

After widespread protests, a six-month state of emergency started in October. Now, much depends on the next move of leaders who have long used their track record of economic development to paper over widespread human rights abuses and political repression.

ByJames Jeffrey, ContributorDecember 9, 2016

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For nearly a year, mass protests surged across Ethiopia – and stormed across the world’s headlines – as a movement that began with farmers fighting land grabs outside the country’s capital mushroomed into the country’s most sustained and widespread period of dissent and protests since its ruling party came to power more than two decades ago.